Ben Carson Endorses A ‘Very Cerebral’ Donald Trump. Probably From A Parallel Universe

This election just keeps getting weirder and weirder…

This morning, Dr. Ben Carson endorsed Donald Trump for president. The soft-spoken, thoughtful neurosurgeon whose campaign was about healing divides in this country is siding with the brash, vulgar reality show star whose supporters and detractors are separated by an ENORMOUS chasm of disagreement. Oh, and Trump once compared Carson to a pedophile.

I cannot for the life of me begin to understand this.

In his endorsement remarks this morning, Dr. Carson said this about Donald Trump –

“I’ve come to know Donald Trump over the last few years. He’s actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America,” Carson said during a press conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “There are actually two different Donald Trumps. There’s the one you see on the stage, and there’s the one who’s very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully.”

 

“And that’s the Donald Trump that you’re going to start seeing more and more of right now,” Carson continued.

Two Donald Trumps? What – is this like parallel universe Trump? Did The Flash tear open a rift in space-time? Do we now have the ability to travel between alternate realities? We’ve got one slightly-nicer Donald Trump hopping over here from Earth-2 and that’s the one we’re supposed to nominate for president? What happened to Earth-1 Trump? Is he locked up in a vault somewhere shouting obscenities at the walls? What’s the citizenship rules for electing someone from an alternate universe for president? Does he need to produce a birth certificate or something?

Sure, Trump (and everyone else) had a great debate showing last night. In fact, this was the first primary debate from either party that I’ve watched where I didn’t feel like I needed to take a shower for a week after sitting through it. But at this point, the vulgarity and the insults and the ugliness of the past few months are not just going to go away because of one civil debate and/or Ben Carson said so.

My apologies to the good doctor, but none of this sits right with me.